Tackabery Chronicle

“You learn to just stand there and take it.”

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The N&O reported today that jury selection began this afternoon for the trial of Lynn Paddock, who is accused of first-degree murder in the death of her adopted son Sean, 4. The paper had earlier reported on the testimony of Paddock’s stepdaughter, Jessy, before a North Carolina Superior Court; testimony that should have chilled me. Should have upset me. Should have made me angry enough to start throwing things. But it didn’t.

“She’d just keep hitting you until you quit crying,” Jessy said. “You learned to just stand there and take it.”. . . .For more than two hours, Jessy Paddock described an angry mother who grew more and more out of control as her family welcomed more adopted children into its home.

I didn’t get upset. Not even reading about children forced to sit in their own urine for hours. Not even when Jessy got to the forced captivity, which I knew she would.

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